Archive
A quick-and-dirty of list of everything posted to thezeds.com This blog began on September 14, 2008 (although my work hacking out words on various CMS’s started before then), and continues to this day..
- Beginnings
- Abram on Tech and Relationships
- Memory Banks. Or: Why I’m Here
- Cheney and the archive.
- LIS Schooling: Lessons Learned and Affirmed
- Professionalism, Principles, and Librarianship
- Australia proposes nation-wide internet filtering
- Ethical Librarianship: The ALA’s Code of Ethics in Practice
- The Hoffman Survey (2005) on Ethics and the ALA
- Open-ID and Librarianship
- Librarianship: an affirmation of faith
- Rethinking old thoughts on ethics and the ALA
- The People Factor in LIS
- cataloguing = existence
- To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield
- Whither Twitter?
- CLA Montreal 2009
- End of Year Reflections
- Libraries, West Bend, and Civil Liberties
- On the Job: Information Literacy and Promotion
- CLA 2009
- talking tech
- CLA Musings – The Library Profession
- 80/20 for librarians
- CLA 2009 Recap: Tech / Copyright / Leadership
- Google.cn and “Don’t be evil”
- Social media, privacy, and self-censorship
- Social Media and Informing Society
- Repurposing the Halifax Library Association?
- Google, Michael Jackson, and Scholarly Research
- Captivate and Screencasting: Measure Twice, Cut Once
- “Librarian” is not a dirty word
- A Librarian Day In The Life
- Professional Ethics, Librarianship, and the Workplace
- Copyright and the abuse of user rights – a Canadian perspective
- StatCan and Canadian Aboriginal Incarceration Rates
- The library science doctorate and the professional librarian
- e-Books and MARC
- UWO Labour Situation – taking stock of what librarians do
- Mid-term report card
- On organizing and networking
- e-books and the humanities
- DRM, Canada, and the long arm of contract law
- FRBR and the (or my?) future
- Understanding FRAD and authority control
- Understanding librarianship
- The Semantics of Subversive Librarianship
- Christmas at the public library
- Canadian Culture at the Library
- Canadian Library Month and the Informed Society
- Introducing a Halifax Google Map
- Halifax maps – 2006 population per census tract
- Library Weeks (4-8 Jan 2010)
- Planning for 2010
- Halifax population growth, 2001 to 2006
- www.redcross.ca
- Halifax Population Density, 2006
- Halifax Unemployment Data, 2006 Census
- Halifax Marital Status by Census Tract, 2006
- The Ides of March
- Librarianship: How to solve our existential crisis
- Halifax Maps: 2005 Median Income, Married-Couple Families
- On Facebook and (what we think of) Privacy
- Halifax Public Libraries : Building Communities
- Assisting research v. Research Assistants
- Web 3.0 (Librarian 3.0?)
- How To Use Social Media in Libraries
- On Tories, Politics, and the StatCan Crisis
- Readings: Lessig, Remix (2008) – Media Matters
- Reading Lessig’s Remix : Copyright Regulating Culture
- Zeds Library News – 1 Aug 2010
- New Degrees and New Jobs
- The Benefits of using WordPress.com
- Zeds Library News, August 8, 2010
- Camtasia vs. Captivate vs. the Organization
- iPads in libraries: preparing for the critical mass
- September Madness
- Days in the Librarian’s life
- Library School Grads Know Nothing : thoughts on the shift from Thinking to Doing
- The iPad is great. Scholarly e-Book interfaces on an iPad are awful.
- The Zeds is now on Facebook! (We may have a logo, too.)
- Managing Terror
- Remembering Norman Horrocks (1927-2010)
- What is a Library? Thinking about what Alberto Manguel thinks about
- Strategy, Tactics, and Rapid Cognition in the Library
- On Kindle Singles
- Communicating with our users
- Google v. Blekko v. The Librarian. (The librarian wins.)
- On information literacy, information-seeking, and microfilm
- Screencasting in libraries: build a relationship and not a movie
- Nova Scotia NDP Spelling FAIL
- On Google Scholar and Information Literacy
- Come to PodCamp Halifax 2011!
- 2011 Action Items
- Muppet News Flash: Digital Libraries cost a lot of money (but don’t tell the general public)
- PodCamp Halifax 2011 slides: Leveraging YouTube
- iPads in libraries: waiting on better browser interfaces
- On Information Literacy, Students, and Syllabuses
- A Paper.li Newspaper for Academic Librarians
- Gender Gaps
- Ranting about patting ourselves on the back
- Information Literacy, Transliteracy, and other literacies
- Stephen Harper doesn’t speak for you.
- Further Reading: Tim Fedak on literacies in higher ed
- Riffing on Seth Godin: Librarians as Data Hounds
- Micah Vandegrift on the librarians of the future
- #CLA2011 Google Map
- Create a CLA Network for new(er) Academic Librarians
- On the costs and benefits of conference attendance
- Why I’m a member of the Canadian Library Association
- Be Where The Conversation Is.
- Reflections one year out of library school
- What’s wrong with Facebook Messenger (beyond giving out your phone number to 750 million people)
- To Library Journal and The Annoyed Librarian: it’s about professional principles and codes of conduct
- Research in popular culture and in the classroom
- A Political Note: Why I believe Brian Topp should not be the leader of the NDP
- Further Reading: Google Ripples
- How to Limit your WorldCat Search Results to Only Books
- Google Reader Takes a Bow as Google Plus Takes the Stage: the death of critical reading on the Internet
- Contemplations: Marginalia, Texts, and Analog Trails
- Come to the Halifax Holly Holly!
- Why we must be apprehensive about DRM and digital locks
- The Circumlocution Office
- An Online Instruction manifesto: technological challenges and people-driven solutions
- Budget cuts to libraries, archives, and information centres jeopardize access to Canadian government information